Tag Archive for the term: new york (Page: 2)

…and New York City trumps Christmas once and for all!

In the NYC vs X-Mas contest, Williamsburg is waaay ahead. Thanks to ye olde heat-island effect, it’s practically t-shirt weather, without a snowflake in sight. Of course, nobody who lives in this neighbourhood is actually from Williamsburg and anybody who is hung up on Christmas traidtions is likely home for the holidays.
Centered around the Bedford [...]

Christmas is not my favourite.
Presumptuous and self-important, Christmas insists on dominating the month of December. Instead of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we are stuck with Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day. Leading up to this are the manic weeks of Christmas shopping, set to the nauseating tinkle of Christmas tunes, or worse, to rock [...]

This from our hilarious hijinky booty mcshaky friends over at the Loose Joints collective:
Tell me, O muse, of music’s Etruscan hero who traveled far and wide after conquering the town of New York. He is of the house of DFA and bears the name of Hercules and Love Affair. Tell me, for he has bested [...]

Mmm New York, if you live within, I dunno, 300 miles of the town you feel it’s pull; it’s probably the magnetic energy of all those living thinking things and their massive moving systems. New York at Christmas is spectacular, but if the Macy’s glow has worn off for you a bit this year, if [...]

Environmental issues got you down on this enviro-themed blog-action day? Maybe it’s time to stop trying to see the world in green.
In 2003, after spending three years completing a degree in environmental science, I felt like I had learned just about every way that things on this planet had, could and would go catastrophically wrong.
It [...]

Once in a while, trawling through the web will turn up a real treasure. The Brooklyn Community Sound Mapping Project is the awesomest one I’ve found in a while.
Students at Erasmus High School in Flatbush, South Brooklyn collaborated with the Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environment, to create a soundscape of their neighbourhood.
The 10 [...]

I e-stumbled down the steep e-steps that were laden heavy with e-snow and packed e-ice due to the Montreal winter, into an elegantly simple, very warm and welcoming site. Arts Crossing provides a meat and potatoes dish that truly brings about sustenance in an all-to flashy fast food world. The site has [...]